Welcome to our live text coverage of Liverpool's trip to face Newcastle United in their Premier League clash at St James's Park. We'll post the teams for you in a matter of seconds...

Dummett rises to challenge Sterling, but the ball sails over the head of both men. And the home side have a goalkick that they clear down the park.

Brendan Rodgers woth his arms folded. A win for his side here could carry Liverpool third top of the table before the afternoon matches.

Coloccini taking chances with passes across the back four. No need to be doing that. Balotelli almost onto the end of a loose pass.

Liverpool have scored six goals in the three matches with Daniel Sturridge playing this season – compared to seven in the six matches in which he has been out injured.

Another surging run from Obertan. Has been a key charactistic of this match so far. Looks to be full of confidence.

Sissoko takes a dive in the box unde the challenge from Allen. Didn't seem to be any contact. Clear dive, and the referee waves play on.

Liverpool could fail to score in consecutive Premier League matches for the first time since April 2013 (against West Ham and Reading).

A period of possession play from Newcastle. Looking to retain the ball as much as possible. Liverpool forced to track runners before Cisse throws a cross straight out of play.

There has not been a goalless draw in the last 58 Lge meetings between these sides, since the 0-0 Division 1 draw at St James’ Park on Feb 23rd 1974.

Balotelli not doing enough to get across his man as Liverpool launched a counter attack. Newcastle survive, and are back in possession here.

Cisse with a deflected effort off Skrtel and behind for a corner to the home side, but Liverpool do well to clear the Colback corner.

Balotelli seems to be operating on the right flank for the visiting side. Ameobi with a powerful dash up the park for the home side.

Liverpool get the action off and running. Pitch looks like a bowling green.

Players out on the pitch. Glorious day for football. A minute's silence for the Fallen. Well observed. Almost ready to go here.

Brendan Rodgers on Liverpool's shyness in front of goal: "It is up to myself to find the solution. The players who are available are working very hard, and we are still learning about each other. I think this is something that sometimes is missed – you get new players in and with not as much preparation time, you are learning about them in the games. But I can see each day relationships growing between the players and the connection in the team. Whenever you have players out it makes it a bit more difficult, but you need to find the solutions in different ways and that is what we have been trying to do."

Alan Pardew: "When you pay a lot of money for players, the CV and the reputation and what they have done goes before them, to a degree, [Remy] Cabella and Moussa [Sissoko] when he came, Mapou [Yanga-Mbiwa] to a degree. But it's difficult to come from international football. Sometimes there's an adjustment, and sometimes it works straight away, like [Yohan] Cabaye did. I think Cabella is going to take a little bit of time, so therefore it is nice to have the option of one or two of those younger players because in my mind, I put the CVs in the drawer and I then now go out on to the training pitch and treat everybody the same - otherwise I shouldn't be in this job - and I try to do that."

Sammy Ameobi makes his first Premier League start since February 12th 2014 – in Newcastle’s 4-0 home defeat v Tottenham. He has only completed 90 mins once in his six Premier League starts prior to today – the 3-0 defeat at Chelsea in Feb 2014.